Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-25
A MINING HORROR IN ENGLAND.
THE ANrr-coERe1oN STRUGGLE.

| THE ANTT.COERClON STRUGGL LIB.
| Six Thousand Leaguers Outwit the
| Police and Hold d Meeting.
| DUBLIN, Oct. 24.-A league meeting an
nounced to be held at Kilrush on Sunday
was proclaimed BY the ri authorities. The
| leaguers, however, outwitted the police and
six Thousand of them marched with bands
and banners to spot few miles from Kill
rush and held meeting. To prevent the au-
thoritiss from sunmoning help the. leaguers
cut the telegraph wires ''s@
Mr.. E. Walsh, the proprietor of the Peo-
pie, Wexford paper, was to-day sentenced
to one months Imprisonment for publishing
| reports of meetings of suppressed branches
of the National league. An appeal was allow
ed and he was admitted to bail.
A Home Rule Ensiishman in Jail.
DUBLIN, Oct 24.-The two Scotch mem
bers of Parliament sent to Ireland by the
Scotch Liberal association to assure the peo-
pie of their sympathy have arrived at Mitch
elstown, where they met with an enthusi-
astic reception. Sir Wi1fred Blunt and Mr..
Roche, poor law guardian, who were ar
rested at Woodford yesterday, were taken from
Loughrea Jail to Woodford to-day
They were escorted by Messrs.
Rowland and Sheen, members of Parliament,
who led procession and band which fol-
lowed the prisoners to the court house. Both
prisoners were remanded until tomorrow for
hearing. Sir Wilfred Blunt refused to give
bail and was again sent to jail.
An application for admission to bail was
made by Sir Wilfred Blunt after he had been
sent back to. jail. At a banquet this evening
at which Father Coen presided, Sir Wilfred,
responding to a toast to. his wifes health,
said he came to Ireland to join Messrs
O'Brien and Dillon in battle which would
undoubtedly be a. stiff one. Mr.. O'Brien in
behalf of the Irish Nationalist members ex-
pressed admiration for the brave Englishman
and his still Drawer wife who had suffered
for,the cause and won the gratitude of the
Irish Throughout the world. Mr.. Blunt says
he was treated with consideration while in
prison. His wife is none the worse for her
experience, but she suffered for some hours
from the effects of the harsh treatment to
which she was subjected having been rough
ly seized by the neck by policeman. The
city and county of Cork have been placed
under the minor clauses of the crimes act.
The Irish Party Disown Him.
PARIS, Oct. 24.-Members of the extreme
Irish party at a meeting to-day denied all
knowledge of O'Dann, the suspected spy who
claimed to be an Irish leader.
Church1II on Irish LaWlessness.
LONDON, Oct. 24-Lord Randolph Church
i'll spoke at Stockton this evening He said
that the Nationalist leaders had made tool
of his friend Blunt, who was an impulsive
man and knew nothing whatever about Irish
affairs. He advised his hekrers not to attach
too much Importance to such collisions Of
which more might occur, the object being to
make the government of Ireland imnossihIa
and to ALLEVIATE electoral support from the
Unionist party. Looking at the determine
ton and prompitude with which the govern
ment was now acting he believed that the
league and all the forces of dis rler in Ire
land would be almost got under by the time
Parliament resumed work. Some people
were shocked by these collisions with the po-
lice; but in America the people had become
SO squeamish, knowing that it was impossi-
BILE to trife with lawlessness in a country
with large democratic institutions, that, for
instance. had Mr.. Blaine spoken about the
American police as Mr.. Gladstone had spoken
about the Irish police at Kidderminster, he
would probably have been expelled from pub
lie life. The legislatures of New York and
other American States were fond of passing
resolutions expressing sympathy with dis
turbers of order in Ireland, but when similar
events occurred at home the police speedily
used clubs and the military rifles. With ref
erence to the fair traders Lord Randolph
gued that duty on imported manufacturers
would ALLEVIATE the support of the country
from the Conservatives and only secure the
support of the towns. A dusy on imported
food would be useless unless high enough to
make corn growing productive and there was
no popular demand for such a duty.